Posts tagged with: Amernic
Looking for hubris but finding realism in company annual report CEO letters to shareholders: an analysis using DICTION software (2014)
"Language with statistically significantly high scores for ‘realism’ and ‘human interest’ is not a distinctive marker of CEO hubris, but rather, is a generic feature of language use in letters...
Exploring signs of hubris in CEO language (2014). Can software identify hubristic CEO-speak?
"Reports on the authors' study into whether DICTION computer-assisted text analysis software could help identify hubristic language from Chief Executive Officers. The results, although mixed, show some promise Amernic, J:...
Leadership discourse, culture, and corporate ethics: CEO-speak at News Corporation. (2013)
"The authors explore the language of leadership of global media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 2010, the year before the phone-hacking scandal in the UK came to public attention. Amernic,...
Detecting linguistic traces of destructive narcissism at-a-distance in a CEO’s letter to shareholders. (2011)
"Through selective analyses of letters to shareholders the authors explore the potential of this important form of corporate communications to provide linguistic traces of destructive narcissism. Amernic, J: Joseph...
Accounting as a facilitator of extreme narcissism. (2010)
"..special features of financial accounting facilitate extreme narcissism in susceptible CEOs. Extremely narcissistic CEOs are key players in a recurring discourse cycle facilitated by financial accounting language and measures. ...